THE
EIGHTH TAI SITU was Chokyi Jungne, who was a doctor,
an astrologer, a poet, an artist, a consummate scholar, and
author of many texts. His famous Tibetan Grammar is
still the foremost advanced text in practical use today. Chokyi
Jungne founded Palpung Monastery in eastern Tibet, which became
the monastic seat of the Tai Situpas as well as an important
center of learning and culture. With his disciple Tenpa Tsering,
he set up the Derge Printing Press that produced over half
a million wood block prints. The work is of such fine quality
that much of it has been reprinted in modern editions and
circulated to Tibetan archives in libraries throughout the
world.